I did a heavy defoliation this week but after a few days she's already bounced back. Most of the pictures are right after the defoliation. I also added D hooks to the lid of my bucket to help with the LST, this worked out great! Definitely a technique I'll be using in the future. It also looks like the phosphorus deficiency I was seeing a little over a week ago has been fixed. I'm gonna give her 2 more weeks before I flip to flowering unless she starts a heavy vertical leap.
I also increased all the ferts again. I hope this doesn't bite me in the ass since I'll be traveling for work this week and won't be able to do a flush if things go sideways. It's been a few days since the increase though and I don't see any leaf burning yet so (fingers crossed) should be good!
Happy growing!! And congrats on the successful seed pop! Now that you already got it poppin, let it shine!! Good luck fam, I'm doing watermelon Zkittelz myself and she's my best one so far!!